Occupational injuries of immigrant and Finnish bus drivers

Bus accident severity and passenger injury: evidence from Denmark

“…A series of studies examined in Sweden the correlation between bus accident rates and acceleration behavior [2,3,5], economical driving [4], high temperatures [6], and drivers' absence behavior [7]. Another study examined in Finland the relationship between occupational injury rate and immigration status of bus drivers [30]. Bus accident rates were associated to drivers' working conditions, salary incentives and job satisfaction in Sri Lanka [17], and drivers' resting problems in Iran [28].…”

A Recommended Integrated Mechanism to Enhance OSH Management of Blue-Collar Foreign Workers in Taiwan

“…Manpower agencies should offer assistance in other regards: they should help recruit blue-collar foreign workers and help them overcome language barriers in Taiwan. According to Sargeant [15], poor language proficiency could be a major factor behind the migrant workers' being under-trained in OSH, because the inability to fluently understand the language of the host country is linked to such workers' relatively low proficiency in workplace language, which is a flaw in the conventional approach to OSH training [18]. Akindele, Mehlape, Valoyi, et al believe that migrant workers show significantly worse comprehension of OSH teaching materials than their local counterparts in host countries if their native language is not used in the working environment [9].…”

Factors affecting occupational safety and health of foreign farm workers in Nordic countries

“…Henriksen (2009) commented that the differences between immigrants and all employees are at least partly due to disparities in the breakdown of occupations; immigrants are overrepresented in occupations which have higher injury risks (Mathisen 2009;Henriksen 2009). In the same occupation and same circumstances, the occupational injury risks for foreign workers do not differ from those of native workers (McKay et al 2006;Garcia et al 2009;Salminen et al 2009). Salminen et al (2009) analyzed injuries of bus drivers in Finland, and noticed that foreign-born bus drivers were not significantly more often involved in occupational injuries than Finnish-born drivers.…”

“…In the same occupation and same circumstances, the occupational injury risks for foreign workers do not differ from those of native workers (McKay et al 2006;Garcia et al 2009;Salminen et al 2009). Salminen et al (2009) analyzed injuries of bus drivers in Finland, and noticed that foreign-born bus drivers were not significantly more often involved in occupational injuries than Finnish-born drivers. Alexe et al (2003) analyzed characteristics of farm injuries in Greece.…”

“…Their ability to communicate safety and health information as well as lack of training and experience increase their injury risk (McKay et al 2006). Language skills (Corvalan et al 1994) and short duration of residence are important factors affecting safety at work (Corvalan et al 1994;Salminen et al 2009). Salminen et al (2009) also found that migrants who have been working less than five years had injuries more frequently than migrants that have been working five years or longer.…”